Today I started building my new PC. Like all my desktop computers this one is intended to last a while so I tried not to skimp on the hardware too much. At the same time I don’t exactly have unlimited funds so keeping the price around $2000 was the target. I already have a nice monitor, sets of 2.1 speakers and a keyboard and mouse so I only need the stuff “in the box”, most of which I managed to acquire today: Read the rest of this entry »
I’ve recently been looking into new Linux desktop torrent programs to possibly use as a replacement for Azureus. Deluge is the first one that I looked at and, overall, I’ve found it to be satisfactory and is well worth considering if you’re after a native Linux client.
A while back I saw a post (a very old post) on the Inmatrix forums where someone ask whether or not there would ever be a Linux version of Zoom Player. The answer was basically “nobody with Linux wants to pay for software, so it will be a lot of development with little or no income”. This got me thinking as to whether or not this is true.
I’ve been using Google Desktop for Linux for almost a week now so I thought I’d write little review on it for people wondering what it’s like.
I think my RAIDing days are over. I tried and tried … and tried, and failed. Perhaps Ubuntu is not yet ready for RAID. Perhaps I am not worthy. Regardless, I packed in the towel on having an ultra-cool and very geeky RAID1 system set up and started setting up a boring rsync backup system. At least with Linux I can rsync most of the system files as well so, should the dreading day come, recovering from a catastrophic hard drive failure will be fairly quick and painless.
Let’s hope that day never comes!
I did get the chance to install Ubuntu again as a simple desktop system. I used the alternate install CD again since I like the X setup in that … and I was trying to recover some geek points. I now have to write up the scripts to do the regular backups. I’m currently trying to work out what a decent interval between syncs is. I think every hour might be too often and a day’s interval seems like too long. Anyone have any suggestions?
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